Underway Again

Today we finally got underway again. We left the dock at Key Largo Harbor Marina around noon and motored out to Rodriguez Key, which is right next to Key Largo, and dropped the anchor. Tomorrow morning we will head to Marathon and anchor in Boot Key Harbor. We may stay there a couple of days waiting for a front to move through before continuing on to Key West, then Dry Tortugas, and on to Mexico.

It felt really good to finally be away from the dock, but we were very sad to say goodbye to John. He's become a really good friend during the time we were in Key Largo. We are hoping he will follow us to Isla Mujeres when he gets his trimaran "No Smoking" in the water. He has all the work pretty much done and is waiting on the Coast Guard to send him the documentation papers.

I finally installed the wind generator while we were in Key Largo and this is the first chance we've had to really see how it works. So far I'm impressed with how quiet it is (some wind generators are very noisy). Right now the gage says it is putting 3 to 4 amps into the batteries and the wind is only about 10 knots.